Latin America: Underdevelopment or RevolutionEssays on the Development of Underdevelopment and the Immediate Enemy

It is the colonial structure of world capitalism, in Frank's view, which produced and maintains the underdevelopment characteristic of Latin America and the rest of the Third World.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part I1. The Development of Underdevelopment

Part II: The Emperor's Clothes2. Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment of Sociology3. Functionalism and Dialectics4. Economic Politics or Political Economy5. Triple Delusion6. Mr Heilbroner's Rhetoric and Reality7. Liberal Anthropology vs Liberation Anthropology

Part III: Economic Imperialism8. Aid or Exploitation?9. Mechanics of Imperialism10. Latin American Economic Integration 11. Invisible Foreign Services or National Economic Development?12. The Economics of Military Government13. The Strategic Weakness of the Johnson Doctrine

Part IV: Internal Colonialist and Class Politics14. Dialectic, not Dual Society15. Capitalist Latifundio Growth in Latin America16. Rural Economic Structure and Peasant Political Power17. Varieties of Land Reform18. Instability and Integration in Urban Latin America19. Mexico: The Janus Faces of 20th Century Bourgeois Revolution20. The Mexican Democracy of Pablo González Casanova21. The Brazilian Pre-Revolution of Celso Furtado22. The National Bourgeoisie and the Military Coup in Brazil23. Destroy Capitalism, not Feudalism24. Class, Politics, and Debray

Part V: Who is the Immediate Enemy?25. Capitalist Underdevelopment or Socialist Revolution.